Al Jarnow Movies

Intended to be an "animation machine," Four Quadrant Exercise finds Jarnow adapting a perspective system, enabling him to render complex motions...

A stop motion opus made up of hundreds of hand-painted wooden blocks that takes the viewer through a brief history of architecture. Primitive...

A mind-twisting time-lapse beginning on a hill just outside town, doing for the concept of time what Charles and Ray Eames's 1968 film The Powers of...

After a day of gathering hundreds of seashells and rocks from the beach, Jarnow uses the found objects to construct a stop motion commentary on how...

A short film made of cel drawings, showing us how various mammals, plants and objects all share similar skeletal structures. Produced for Sesame...

A rap teaching kids how to use a waste basket.

Jarnow adapts an architectural grid catalogue of cubic rotations in order to explore a direct relationship between animation procedure and logical...

A train struggles to stay on track.

An animated orange

A story about cooperation.

Documentary about the experimental animator.

The letter Z in various typefaces.

A rock performs an acrobatic feat for the assembled crowd.

Jarnow's first work for Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop - yak is a goofy take on the letter "Y."

Daylight moves through a room. Or is it the room that moves?

The primary motif in this silent picture is a grid that controls the shapes and motions of forms contained within the framework of a rotating cube....

A method by which drawings can be enlarged on a grid.

Mixed animation set to music.

A group of kids demonstrate the concept of image resolution.

Three rocks attempt to cross a river.